For those of you interested in ways you can contribute to helping communities in Southern Cal recover from these awful fires, here's a great page of links of relief and rebuilding efforts for the California fires: Southern California Grantmakers' listing of philanthropic efforts.

There are also links at my previous post about this. If you are ( Read more... )

The numbers are staggering. As of today, the devastating wild fires in California have burned more than 410,000 acres (over 640 square miles), destroyed more than 1,500 homes, forced over 500,000 residents to evacuate (some estimates are as high as 1 million displaced), and have caused at least $1 billion in damages. And many of the fires are not ( Read more... )